Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a dispatch dated September 23, 1885, and printed in the Wessington Springs Herald, five Chinese men were taken from a jail by citizens on the Monday night before and hanged to trees. The dispatch gives no names or ages for the men, and the name and location of the jail are not clearly legible in the surviving text.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A dispatch dated September 23, 1885 says citizens took five Chinese men from a jail and hanged them to trees.
Reported by: news reports.